Doris Day Collection Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		3.5
Video		4.5
Audio		4.5
Extras		2.0
Overall		4.0

Doris Day Collection Blu-ray Movie Review

Don't quit your Day job.

Reviewed by Randy Miller III December 11, 2025

Warner Archive has been steadily rolling out a number of condensed genre and actor-themed collections that contain multiple existing WB and WAC Blu-rays at attractive prices, typically averaging out to less than $10 a film. It's a great way to quickly build a classic film collection and, for musical lovers, will delight with 1948's Romance on the High Seas, 1951's Lullaby of Broadway, 1955's Love Me or Leave Me, and 1962's Billy Rose's Jumbo. Other Day catalog titles include The Pajama Game and The Glass Bottom Boat, which may be included in a future follow-up set.

For synopses of all four films included here, please see the review links below.

Romance on the High Seas (Review by Randy Miller III) - A buoyant musical masquerading as a rom-com, Michael Curtiz's "Romance on the High Seas" is best remembered as the acting debut of singer Doris Day. The 26-year old, who already had two #1 recordings under her belt, imbues the film with plenty of charm and musical power that easily overtakes its somewhat convoluted story. What sounds like an bad sitcom plot actually ends up yielding terrific results, mostly because "Romance on the High Seas" has so many fundamental strengths at its disposal.

Lullaby of Broadway (Review by Randy Miller III) - A fitfully fun musical with catchy song and dance routines, but there isn't much meat in this meal and what's here hasn't aged particularly well during the past 70+ years. Besides for those song breaks, its best elements include vivid Technicolor cinematography as well as starring roles for Doris Day (who debuted just three years earlier in Romance on the High Seas) and Gene Nelson, who share great chemistry. The solid supporting roles filled by S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George, and Florence Bates ain't too shabby, either. But most everything else about this breezy but mostly forgettable production feels either half-baked or just barely good enough, which makes "Lullaby of Broadway" more of a genre curiosity than some kind of unsung classic.

Love Me or Leave Me (Review by Michael Reuben) - This musical–drama hybrid, based on the life of singer Ruth Etting (Day), follows her rise to stardom where she's controlled by Chicago mobster Marty Snyder (James Cagney), who becomes both her manager and obsessive lover. As Ruth’s fame grows, she struggles to break free from Marty’s grip while treading an unsteady path somewhere between ambition, love, and personal freedom.

Billy Rose's Jumbo (Review by Michael Reuben) - "The 1962 musical 'Billy Rose's Jumbo' was a widescreen Technicolor extravaganza in the grand MGM style featuring popular stars Doris Day, Martha Ray and Jimmy Durante (who came out of retirement to appear in the film). In another time, it might have been a ripping success, but it fizzled at the box office, despite a massive publicity campaign, and is generally thought to have irreparably damaged Day's film career. A top box office star before [its] release, after its failure she was frozen out of the running for two leads she had been actively seeking in 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' 'The Sound of Music'."

Doris Day Collection Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

For details about each film's 1080p transfer, please see the review links below.

Romance on the High Seas

Lullaby of Broadway

Love Me or Leave Me

Billy Rose's Jumbo

Doris Day Collection Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Likewise, details about each film's lossless audio mix can be found at the linked reviews.

Romance on the High Seas

Lullaby of Broadway

Love Me or Leave Me

Billy Rose's Jumbo

Doris Day Collection Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

This four-disc set ships in a hinged keepcase with separate hubs for each disc. Like other WAC collections, this one repurposes existing poster-themed covers as a paneled collage. The bonus features are comparatively light but include a few interesting era-specific shorts, trailers, and other items detailed below.

Romance on the High Seas

Lullaby of Broadway

Love Me or Leave Me

Billy Rose's Jumbo

Doris Day Collection Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Like its other actor-themed sets, Warner Archive's Doris Day Collection serves as a low-priced entry point for classic film fans looking to quickly grow their collections at a very reasonable price. Although die-hard disciples of Day likely own most or all of these discs already, everyone else should find a good amount of bang for their buck here as each film has strong A/V merits and a few lightweight but interesting extras. Recommended to the right crowd.